Podcast: Women in Northeastern Uganda Pay the Price for Years of Neglect

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Podcast MSF Frontline Reports Women in Northeastern Uganda Pay the Price for Years of Neglect May 04, 2011 Uganda 2011 © Maimouna Jallow/MSF Chronic violence and neglect in parts of northeastern Uganda's Karamoja region means 70 percent of the population has no access to any kind of health care. This affects women the most - maternal mortality rates here are 75 percent higher than the national average. MSF goals in Karamoja's Kaabong district are to strengthen government health services and to reach people who otherwise can't get to health facilities. Download \| iTunes Become a regular listener: Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe with RSS Hear more: April 25, 2011 For centuries, the drug quinine has been used to treat malaria, a disease ... April 19, 2011 Female genital cutting, or FGC, is the practice of surgically removing par... Tags: Uganda, Women's Health	Uganda Share this: Share Subscribe to Doctors Without Borders Follow @MSF_USA Doctors Without Borders in your inbox: Get our monthly newsletter of top stories. Or click here to receive all MSF updates via email.
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